Blench Roger, Spriggs Matthew (eds.) Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation

Routledge, 1999. — 280 p. — (One World Archaeology 35).This volume is the final part of a four-part survey of innovative results emerging from the fusion of archaeology and historical linguistics. Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.Roger Blench is a Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, London; Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra.